War Council Formed To Plan United Nations Victory
A war council of Allied leaders convened at the White House to chart strategy for defeating Japan. Participants include Viscount Halifax, Dr Herbert Vo Ewart, Walter Nash, T V Soong, Alexander Loudan, and Hume Wrong. Roosevelt called the first meeting to align Western Pacific war policy and high level aims.
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Washington
Waw Council
United Nations
Japan
Pacific
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
Roonevelt
White House
Roosevelt
Western Pacific
Viscount Halifax
Herbert Vo Ewart
Walter Nash
New Zealand
United States
T. V. Soong
Alexander Loudan
Netherlands
Hume Wrong
Canada
Zero Hour Near as Hitler Masses 12 Million for Spring Drive
Adolf Hitler moved 1.5 million fresh troops to the eastern front signaling a spring offensive. German and Russian forces number about 12 million as trains and massed divisions shape a 2,000 mile Soviet front. German advances northeast of Orel push Russian forces from positions near Moscow while observers expect heavy blows against Soviet armies in the Caucasus and Ukraine as fighting rages around Kharkov Sevastopol and Leningrad.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Eastern Front
Fuhrer
Stockholm
London
Orel
Moscow
Ales
Hitler
Semeon Timoshenko
Ore
Tagarog
Caucasus
Agai
Ukraine
Leningrad
Red Army
Kharkov
Russia
Pittsburgh
Sevastropol
Crimea
Tans
Sevastopol
War alarm fades in Tucson mass meeting rant
In Tucson on April 1 a mass meeting warned against war lag, yet a newspaper man notes uncertain public grasp of military details. He recalls America’s rapid buildup and questions exact numbers of soldiers, weapons, ships, and ammunition, while criticizing political distractions.
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Tucson
Ariz
Brown Says RFC Loans to War Plants Face Cuts
Senator Brown of Michigan warns that a pending 106 million dollar fund for Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans may be reduced if the business aid bill passes. He asserts some of the new funds could be lost and criticizes policy on security and purpose of treasury backed loans to small factories and war production.
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Washington
RFC
Bill
Brown
Treasury
Infant Born As Torpedo Hits Ship
New York reports a torpedo struck a helpless merchant ship off the Atlantic coast Sunday morning. A baby was born in a cabin as the blast shattered the vessel. Rescue boats saved both mother and infant, who were reported doing as well as possible at an Atlantic port.
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New York
Fifeboat
Menorthy
Atlantic
State W M A Convention Opens At First Baptist Church
Nearly 800 attend the three day meeting as Rev Leo Edidleman former Palestine mission worker delivers opening address. Norway student Miss K Thordia Thomatad leads devotional followed by music readings and committee work. Mrs T V Herndon discusses enlistment victory and gifts while Dr Alfred Carpenter gives a mission address.
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First Baptist Church
Leo Edidleman
Palestine
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Mle K. Thordia Thomatad
Flekkefjord
Norway
The
Baptist Bible Institute
T. V. Herndon
Mra. H. M. Bennett
Margaret Fund
Mra. D. R. Swetman
Children's Home
Mra. B. A. Averett
Hiad
Alfred Carpenter
Home Mission Board
Three truck lines seek permits for bulk petroleum routes
Baton Rouge April 1 The Public Service Commission will hold hearings April 9 and 10 at Shreveport City Hall on applications from three truck lines to haul petroleum products in bulk over irregular state routes. The action follows an order from the office of defense transportation with the petroleum coordinator to borrow rail tank cars for trips under 106 miles. Other hearings include common carrier applications and insurance issues, plus two railroad rate cases covering materials shipments from Shreveport and New Orleans and the Southern Freight Association district rates in Orleans Baton Rouge Bogalusa and Hammond.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Public Service Commission
Shreveport
Office of Defense Transportation
P. A. Frye
Frye
New Orleans
Orleans
Bogalusa
Hammond
Morehouse Man Is Fatally Shot
Bastrop La April 1 special Henry Barnett 45 was shot and instantly killed at his Col linston road home five miles from Bastrop Tuesday afternoon. Dent Cockrell 38 confessed to Sheriff Bob Harp stating he killed Barnett. Cockrell in jail awaiting further inquiry. Barnett previously killed a man Tarwater two years earlier and was cleared. Barnett’s body taken to Robinson Funeral home with funeral plans incomplete. Surviving son and husband of Cockrell’s three children noted. Circumstances under sheriff investigation.
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Bastrop
Henry Barnett
Collinston Road
Dent Cockrell
Morehouse Parish
Bob Harp
Barnett
Tarwater
Robinson
Cockrell
Sheriff's Office
Dr Bendel Hurt In Auto Accident Near Sixth and Louisville
Two people injured in a Tuesday morning car collision at Sixth and Louisville. Dr W L Bendel suffered a bruised shoulder and shock while B H Hash, 19, of Bastrup, broke an arm. Passenger Leslie Richardson unharmed. Police estimated about 150 dollars damage to each car. No charges filed. Bendel was southbound on North Sixth. Hash was eastbound on Louisville Avenue.
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Sixth
Louisville
W. L. Bendel
Jocal
B. H. Hesh
Bastrop
Leslie Richardson
Hash
North Sixth
Louisville Avenue
Toungoo Abandoned By Chinese Troops
Chinese garrison at Toungoo defeats Japanese under heavy fire and holds out for five days before retreating under Stilwell order. Relief forces struggled to reach the trapped troops as the fiercest Burma battle raged with Chinese units maneuvering from Yedashe to weaken Japanese lines.
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Toungoo
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Toungo
Sittang
Burma
Mandalay
Yedashe
Oil official says process withheld during 1939 naval visit
Washington April 1. President W S Farish testified that Standard Oil of New Jersey officials did not disclose the full synthetic rubber manufacturing process to a Navy civilian representative during a 1939 plant visit. Senator O Mahoney questioned whether a Standard official steered the Navy man away from key details. Farish said information was turned over to the munitions board in 1939, with excerpts noting the naval visitor identified as Mr Werkenthin.
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Washington
W. S. Farish
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Navy
Standard
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Farish
Thurman Arnold
Die Trust
Munitions Board
Arnold
Naval
Mr. Werkenthin
Recent Draft Enrollees 10 Get Call Soon
Washington announces that men who registered February 16 will be quickly classified and may be inducted in May or June. Local boards will start classifying the second age group alongside the first and prepare for the June call, filling both age groups' quotas.
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Washington
U—Selective Service
War Department
Route to India Will Be Mapped
Four Chinese survey corps of 100 men each plus engineers doctors and guards will depart Kunming to map a temporary overland route to India. The line runs from western Yunnan through upper Burma to India to supply gasoline and vital materials to China as the Burma road closes. The trek faces malaria tribal hostility and rugged terrain as pack trains elephants and carts are used.
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Chungking
China
Kunming
India
Burma
Yunnan
Upper
Alto
Sikang
Judge Seeks Penny Back in Matrimony Ruse
New York Chief Magistrate Henry H. Curran bailed a youth on a statutory charge at one cent and sentenced the lovers to marriage. He then asked City Treasurer for the penny as a wedding gift, joking about not withholding city share. The note notes the signatory had only cashed the penny, not the bond.
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New York
Henry H. Curran
Curran
Almerindo
P. S
Aged farmers slain near Oxford Michigan
Two elderly farmers Cassius Barber and Romaine Potter were shot to death in their homes near Oxford two miles west on Coach road. Barber was shot four times, Potter's killer remains at large and a former hired hand, Roy Thorpe, is missing after the killings prompted a county sheriff to probe a possible grudge motive.
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Pontiac, Mich
Oxford
Here
Cassius E. Barber
Romaine C. Potter
Coach Road
Barber
Spencer C. Howarth
Oakland County
Potter
Roy Thorpe
Howarth
Thorpe
Britain’s Prized RAF Celebrates 24th Birthday
London April 1. Britain's Royal Air Force marked its 24th birthday as the nation boasted parity with Germany in air strength. Since the war began the RAF with dominion and allied squadrons and anti aircraft guns counted for nearly 9,000 Axis planes destroyed or accounted for, British figures show.
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London
Britain
Royal Air Force
Royal Flying Corps
Naval Air Service
Hunger Revolts Reported in Essen and Berlin Factories
Moscow radio said hunger revolts erupted among Essen workers after bread rations were cut. Reported slogans included We Want More Bread Stop the War and Down With Hitler as police and storm trooper formations were deployed. The broadcast noted barricade drills in Berlin districts and special police committees to counter sabotage. It also claimed two Polish centers traded German army gasoline and that high German officers were arrested.
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London
Moscow Radio
Essen
Hitler
Neukoelin
Berlin
Poland
Army
Air Force
Gestapo
13 Survivors Rescued From Torpedoed Panamanian Ship
Norfolk report details 13 crewmen rescued after 45 hours adrift in an Atlantic lifeboat and two rafts. Two dead, three missing, seven hospitalized for exposure and injuries. Survivor Ray Prichard recounts torpedo attack, sinking, and grim ocean ordeal.
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Norfolk
Fifth Naval District
Ray Prichard
Blytheville
Ark
Arkansan
John Anderson
Two Isolationists Held for Sedition
Los Angeles reports that isolationists Robert C. Noble and Ellis O. Jones were rearrested on federal sedition charges after earlier Pearl Harbor related arrests. State libel charges followed against Noble Jones and seven others for pamphlet labeling General Douglas MacArthur. Noble and Jones led a mock impeachment of Roosevelt and voiced praise for Hitler and Axis coe to, urging Europe for Hitler and the Orient for the Japanese.
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Los Angeles
Robert C. Noble
MacArthur
Ellis O. Jones
Roosevelt
Noble
Jones
Douglas MacArthur
Friends of Progress Isolationist Organization
Earl Warren
Sacramento
Pearl Harbor
United States
Francis Biddle
Friends of
State Assembly
Hitler
Europe
Sikhs reject Cripps plan as India faces war in Asia
Amid Burma combat, Sikh leaders reject Britain's post-war dominion offer citing Muslim majority risk. Japanese assaults press on Philippines as Wainwright's line on Bataan endures fierce fighting. Tokyo apologizes for bombing a base hospital.
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Associated Presa
Battle of Burma
India
United Nations
Sikh All-Parties Committee
Britain
Sir Stafford Cripps
Punjan
Associated Press
Burma
Toungoo
Rangoon
Philippines
War Department
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan
Imperial High Command
U S Shutting Off Argentina War Aid Policy Shift
Washington April 19 44 The United States cut Argentina off from special economic military and naval aid until it joins the hemisphere effort against the axis New policy prioritizes American republics at war or severing ties with the axis Argentina remains allied with the axis and not contributing to western hemisphere defense
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Washington
United States
Argentina
Substitute for Morphine Found
A non habit forming substitute for morphine was announced at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. The synthetic drug, made from a compound resembling atropine, produced effects on hundreds of humans as reported by Robert Batterman and C K Himselsbach.
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Boston
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
David R. Climenko
Winthrop Chemical Company
Rensselaer
N. C
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